A Golden Oldie

Time to go “all way back” to 2006! In this Cassini image beautifully color calibrated by Gordan Ugarkovic we see the moon Mimas tucked into the shadow of Saturn’s rings. Nicknamed the “Death Star” moon, Mimas features a large crater with a sharp central peak, giving it a striking resemblance to the infamous sci-fi space station.

Here, however, it just appears as a dark crescent-lit sphere hiding in the shadow of a giant… waiting until it comes within range, perhaps? :)

This image was captured on June 7, 2006.

Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Gordan Ugarkovic. See this and more of Gordan’s color composites on his Flickr page here.

Voices of Exploration

"I think there’s something to seeing these very professional people helping each other to solve a problem and in the idea that mankind is humane and will do the right thing eventually to each other and to others...we all like the idea that there are great mysteries still to be explored.”
— Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015)

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